Shooting streamers



Filed 'March 25, 1937 Patented May 24, 1938 SHQOTNG STREAMERS Vesiey C. Clark, Minneapolis, Minn.

Appiication March 25, 1937, Serial Nc. 133,684

Claims.

This invention relates to a shooting streamer or the like.

It is particularly aimed to provide a novelty adapted to be projected by a rubber band or the 5 like, te serve as ornamentation and in a multiplicity of other ways as will become apparent from a consideration of the description following.

It is further aimed to provide such a construction wherein the article has an end portion of metal serving to weight the same so that its trajectory will more nearly be in a straight line, and so that the device may have an attaching hooi; capable of ready bending for closing, and whereby a slot may also be cut into the device for engagement by a rubber band or other propelling medium.

A preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the shooting streamer engaged with a rubber band and as held in the hands for projection;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Figure 2;

Figure i is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view taken through the hook end of the device on the same plane as Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary side elevation showing the slot engaged with a rubber band, and

Figure 6 is a detail side elevation showing a plurality of the devices suspended from a branch of a Christmas tree or the like.

Referring specifically to the drawing wherein like reference characters designate like or similar parts, the shooting streamer is attenuated and consists of any desired number of flexible strands I il, usually four, afforded by doubling two elements intermediate their ends as shown. Such strands or streamers IQ are made preferably from light material such as paper, cloth, Cellophane, rubber, leather or the like, no limitation being made as to the material.

In connection with such strands Iii a heavier strand is employed at il, which is preferably of any suitable metal although no limitation to metal is to be implied. The strands IB are doubled over the heavier strand II and a hook end is formed by bending the metal Il as at I2. The material or strands Ii may be secured to the metal Ii by clinching the latter against the strands lil or such strands I may be secured in place in any other suitable way as by riveting them to the strand II, securing them by adhesive to the strand il, for instance.

(Cl. Liii-74) In addition, in one edge of the strands l) and I I a hook slot I3 is preferably cut below the hook.

The shooting streamer of the present invention has varied uses, for instance, that of a favor to be .used at parties, as an article to be shot into the air by means of a rubber band, as an ornament or accessory as on comic or grotesque costumes for any part or portion of the body or clothing, as decorations generally, as ornaments for Christmas trees, etc.

The added weight at one end of the streamer as afforded by the strand II causes it to travel more in a straight line and also to descend hook end first, as well as to cause it to travel farther.

The device may be hung from any suitable support such as a Christmas tree at I4, by engaging the hook I2 therewith and thereafter bending the hook I2 closed so as to clinch it, it being understood that the metal II is malleable.

The rounded end of the hook increases the safety of its use as a shooting streamer.

When the device is shot, the hook I2 may be engaged with a rubber band as suggested at I5 in Figure 1, the rubber band and the streamer being held by the fingers of the respective hands as suggested therein. the device may be better projected when a rubber band I6 is engaged by the slot I3, rather than the hook I2.

The device may be used as a novelty by schools or organizations, with the different strands i0 being of different colors and of the school or organization colors.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention:-

1. A device of the class described having a plurality of streamers, a metallic strand connected to said streamers at one end of the latter, and said strand having a slot in one edge thereof for the purpose specified. I

2. A device of the class described having a plurality of streamers, a metallic strand connected to said streamers at one end of the latter, said strand being of hook shape at one end, said strand being malleable and having a slot in one edge thereof.

3. A device of the class described having a plurality of streamers, a strand of relatively heavier material than the streamers contacted substantially throughout its length by the streamers, said strand having one end portion deflected for the purpose specied.

4. A device of the class described having a Also, in some instances,

plurality'of streamers, a strand of relatively plurality of streamers, a strand of relatively heavier material than the streamers contacted heavier material than the streamers longitusubstantially throughout its length by the dinally coextensive with an end portion of the. streamers, said strand having a slot for the purplurality of streamers, said strand being of a 5 pose specied. shape for engagement by a propelling agent. 5 5. A device of the class described having a WESLEY C. CLARK. 

